And speaking of education...

Normally, when you see a link to a news article that says President To Target Education, you would think, "Oh good, we are doing things to strengthen education in the federal budget." But with President Bush, you would be wrong. About a third of the programs that President Bush wants to eliminate are in education.

From the California Chronicle:

President Bush's budget for fiscal year 2007 cuts federal education spending by 3.8 percent, the largest in at least a decade. The budget continues to break the President's promise to fully fund the No Child Left Behind law; this year, it shortchanges the law by $15.4 billion. Washington Republicans have already shortchanged schools and schoolchildren by roughly $40 billion since NCLB was enacted in 2002. The 2007 budget raises that amount to over $55 billion. At the same time, while public schools are left to struggle financially, the President's budget proposes to subsidize private schools in the form of private school vouchers.